How are the UCSD Libraries being impacted by budget cuts?
A. Earlier this year, the Libraries were asked by the Senior Vice Chancellor to prepare a document describing how we would take a possible $6 million budget cut in 2011-12, a cut that would be nothing less than devastating to the Libraries and our ability to support the academic mission. Instead, we outlined how we would absorb a $3 million budget cut in 2011-12, on top of significant cuts absorbed by the Libraries in fiscal years 2008-09 and 2009-10. Over the last few years, the Libraries have absorbed cuts of nearly $5 million (or approximately 16% of our operations and collections budget). In addition to these cuts, the Libraries were assessed approximately $1 million for employee furloughs last year. Given that the Libraries depend on state funding for nearly 85% of their budget, these funding reductions have given us no option but to rethink the resources and services the Libraries deliver to the campus community and other patrons. We simply can’t continue to absorb additional sig
